Who are the new Scream Queens? Stars such as Jenna Ortega, Mia Goth and Florence Pugh have taken over the horror scene - and their off-screen dramas are just as hair-raising

The scary movie genre has galore hair-raising tropes, and coming successful alongside nan celebrated jump scares, gory scenes and disturbing themes are nan notorious Scream Queens. 

Scream Queens are usually - arsenic suggested successful their sanction - salient actresses crossed nan genre, who respond to their frightening situations pinch an onslaught of shrieking. 

The original Queen is often considered to beryllium Fay Wray, owed to her very large capacity arsenic Ann Darrow successful King Kong (1933). 

Classic examples now see Marilyn Burns successful The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Betsy Palmer successful Friday nan 13th and A Nightmare connected Elm Street pinch Heather Langenkamp. 

It moreover inspired a Fox scary bid of nan aforesaid sanction successful 2015, starring Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Abigail Breslin, Lea Michele and Keke Palmer.  

But contempt kicking disconnected nan trope, nan Scream Queens had problems from nan outset - arsenic Wray later admitted nan explanation had constricted her profession by typecasting her into nan role. For Wray, it was Scream Queen for life, aliases nothing. 

Scream Queens person often been cliched and over-sexualised successful nan past, portraying women arsenic helpless and panicked pinch small agency and characteristic of their own. 

But now location are caller Scream Queens connected nan block, giving a modern twist to nan genre. 

From Jenna Ortega and Mia Goth successful nan X scary bid to Florence Pugh and Sydney Sweeney, each modern Scream Queen besides seems to beryllium accompanied by a thrilling life down nan scenes. 

Here, FEMAIL takes a look astatine nan contenders up for nan title of modern Scream Queen.  

Jenna Ortega

At conscionable 21 years old, Jenna Ortega appears to beryllium nan movie industry's newest scary sensation. 

Netflix horror-comedy bid Wednesday, successful which Ortega stars arsenic nan title characteristic Wednesday Addams, has propelled nan erstwhile Disney prima to a worldwide sensation. 

She has moreover go an executive producer, and has made nary concealed of her emotion of nan scary genre, moreover saying 'it is everything' to her.  

Speaking to People magazine recently, she said: 'I would do scary until I die. It's nan best. 

'I emotion scary [movies] because they encapsulate everything. They tin beryllium romantic, they tin beryllium funny, they tin beryllium dramatic, they tin beryllium scary. They're adrenaline-inducing and ignite passion successful people, moreover scaredy-cats. 

'I deliberation there's conscionable thing really, really beautiful astir scary and profound.'

Jenna has agelong been unfastened astir her emotion of each things 'disturbing,' and she moreover erstwhile admitted that she feels 'connected' to 'serial killers' and 'monsters' - thing she believes has helped her onshore roles.

Even though Jenna herself feels she 'can't claim' nan title of 'scream queen', her filmography would propose otherwise. 

Even her insignificant domiciled playing Joe Goldberg's young neighbour Ellie Alves successful Netflix's You bid tin beryllium seen arsenic her starting to dip her toed into scary - arsenic stalker Joe ruthlessly murders different characters passim nan series. 

Ortega's main task into each things scary came pinch films Scream and X (both 2022), which follows nan travel of young filmmakers seeking to make an big movie astatine a spot successful agrarian Texas. 

The communicative turns to scary erstwhile group astir them support turning up dead.  

Despite keeping her individual life comparatively private, Jenna herself has faced a bid of thrilling scandals since her Wednesday role. 

In 2023 she received immense disapproval aft she slammed nan creators of Wednesday, admitting that she changed galore of nan lines while filming nan show because she thought that nan original book 'didn't make sense.'

Most recently, she recovered herself successful nan aftermath of different ungraded aft an X-rated portion of nan caller flick Miller's Girl featured her getting friendly pinch character Martin Freeman - who is 31 years her elder - near viewers highly 'uncomfortable.'

In nan flick, Jenna, played 18-year-old student Cairo Sweet, while Martin took connected nan domiciled of her coach Jonathan Miller.

The movie saw nan 2 get tangled successful a very analyzable and inappropriate relationship, that kicks disconnected erstwhile Cairo writes a activity communicative arsenic portion of a imaginative penning duty fixed to her by Jonathan.

Raunchy scenes from this communicative are past played retired connected surface by Jenna and Martin - leaving viewers successful uproar complete nan co-stars 'uncomfortable' 31-year property difference.

The abrupt attraction from Wednesday shone a fierce spotlight connected Jenna's individual life - and resulted successful her facing immense scrutiny complete immoderate of nan things she said and did.

Most notably, nan prima was branded arsenic 'toxic' and 'entitled' aft she criticized nan writers of Wednesday and admitted that she had changed galore lines while making nan show because she felt they didn't 'make sense.'

During an quality connected nan Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard podcast successful March 2023, she said, 'I don't deliberation I've ever had to put my ft down much connected a group successful a measurement that I had to connected Wednesday.

'When I first signed onto nan show, I didn't person each nan scripts. I thought it was going to beryllium a batch darker.

'When I publication nan full series, I realized, 'Oh, this is for younger audiences.' It wasn't… I didn't cognize what nan reside was, aliases what nan people would sound like.'

Jenna added that she decided to revamp nan book because she felt it was 'boring' and audiences wouldn't for illustration it.

She continued, 'Her being successful a emotion triangle? It made nary consciousness ... You can't lead a communicative and person nary affectional arc because past it's boring and cipher likes you.

She is highly backstage astir her individual life online, particularly regarding romanticist relationships. 

Fans antecedently speculated astir her chemistry pinch her Wednesday co-star Hunter Doohan, who plays Tyler, but he is joined to hubby Fielder Jewett. 

In 2018 she was linked to Asher Angel - pinch whom she dressed successful a couple's costume arsenic Ariana Grande and Pete Davison for a Halloween party. 

Jenna besides appeared successful Jacob Sartorius's euphony video Chapstick, wherever they kissed - but soon aft he started making love Millie Bobby Brown. 

Mia Goth

British calved character Mia Goth has been moving successful scary for astir of her career.  

Though she ventured extracurricular nan container by starring arsenic Harriet successful an adjustment of Jane Austen's Emma successful 2020, scary seems to beryllium wherever Goth shines, and screams, best. 

A Cure For Wellness (2016) was a supporting domiciled that began her task into nan genre, while Infinity Pool (2023) spurred her into a champion successful nan scary world. 

Goth plays protagonist/antagonist duo Maxine Minx and Pearl successful nan X series, pinch a prequel dedicated to her character's villain root story.  

MaXXXine — nan 3rd and last installment of nan X trilogy — is group successful 1980s Los Angeles amid an evolving big movie industry.

The communicative follows Maxine Minx, nan sole subsister of nan massacre successful X, arsenic she continues her travel successful Hollywood to go a celebrated actress.

Goth herself has been successful an on-off narration pinch Shia LeBeouf for galore years, having first met while starring successful Nymphomaniac successful 2012. 

The brace dated for respective years earlier they tied nan knot successful Las Vegas successful 2016, though they went connected to divided up successful 2018.

The Transformers prima was subsequently linked to Margaret Qualley and FKA Twigs, who later revenge a suit against nan character for various forms of alleged abuse.

Shai and Mia reconciled successful 2020, and it was revealed that nan second was pregnant pinch nan couple's kid successful 2022.

The X prima gave commencement to Isabel successful March of that year.

Like her different Scream Queen stars, ungraded appears to person followed Goth arsenic her scary profession has grown. 

In January it emerged that James Hunter - an other connected nan 3rd and last installment of nan X trilogy was suing Goth for artillery amid claims she 'bullied' and 'intentionally kicked' him successful nan caput while he was playing a bloody corpse. 

He has now claimed Goth followed him and called him a 'big baby' earlier saying 'nobody will judge you because you're nothing'. 

Speaking to DreadCentral, Hunter recounted nan alleged incident saying: 'On nan 4th aliases 5th take, I'm laying connected nan near broadside of my ear. 

'I perceive her; she runs by me, and I perceive her footwear clamp down correct adjacent to my ear. And I thought, oh, well, it's acheronian out. She's not really getting a hit connected precisely wherever I'm laying.'

But aft it happened again, Hunter claims Goth said to him: 'Nobody will judge you because you're nothing. Get nan f*** disconnected my set, you large baby.'

He claims to person written down nan nonstop words connected a adjacent telephone expanse truthful that he would retrieve them.  

Hunter says he believes Goth was insinuating nary 1 would judge him if he said that her footwear was 'done purposefully and pinch malice.'

A24 said successful a connection to DailyMail.com: 'The claims made successful nan title are simply not true. As this is successful progressive litigation, we cannot opportunity much astatine this clip but proceed to vigorously take sides Mia and nan full filmmaking squad against these highly baseless allegations.'

Goth said to The New York Times precocious astir nan lawsuit that she 'could not reside nan suit revenge by an other against her, West, and A24, alleging that she intentionally kicked him connected nan group of Maxxxine. 

'She did opportunity that she was 'very grateful for A24's support'.

DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Goth and A24 for remark previously. 

Lupita Nyong'o 

Lupita Nyong'o whitethorn person an Academy Award for her domiciled arsenic Best Supporting Actress successful 12 Years A Slave (2013), but her declare to nan title of Scream Queen is besides a beardown one. 

The Kenyan-Mexican actress, 41, who was named nan world's astir beautiful female successful 2014 by People, has starred successful scary films Us (2019) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024). 

In psychological scary movie Us, Nyong'o plays mother-of-two Adelaide, who is attacked by a group of doppelgangers known arsenic The Tethered, familial clones created by nan authorities to power nan population. 

She also plays doppelganger Red successful nan creepy screenplay, written and directed by Oscar victor Jordan Peele.  

Nyong'o is nan lead characteristic successful A Quiet Place arsenic Sam, who originates nan movie arsenic a crab diligent successful a hospice, furious that her life is to extremity excessively soon. 

Like nan erstwhile films, an apocalypse strikes and a deadly alien penetration begins. 

They are blind, but person defined hearing, meaning nan characters can't make immoderate noise, starring to a tense and gripping business wherever nan characters effort to support wholly silent.

Aside from her acting work, Nyong'o has precocious made headlines for her narration pinch Dawsons Creek's Joshua Jackson. 

DailyMail.com reported backmost successful March that nan 2 are 'exclusive and serious', according to insiders. 

Joshua had divided from his woman Jodie Turner Smith, pinch whom he shares a girl Juno, backmost successful October past twelvemonth aft she cited 'irreconcilable differences'. 

At nan time, Joshua was said to person been near heartbroken - but was photographed pinch Lupita conscionable weeks later.  

'Josh and Lupita are exclusive and serious,' an insider told DailyMail.com exclusively. 'They get each other, and she has been specified a calming unit for him.

'They are successful emotion and Josh feels saved. That mightiness sound highly corny but aft his narration pinch Jodie, who he thought was it for him, uncovering emotion pinch Lupita has been a revelation. 

'It is everything to him that he has been capable to find emotion again. He is very excited for their future.'

Last month, Jodie yet collapsed her soundlessness connected nan caller relationship, telling The Cut: 'Good for them. We request happiness successful bid to peacefully co-parent. I'm trying to get america to nan Gwyneth [Paltrow] and Chris Martin level.'

'I genuinely dream they're happy and that it benefits america arsenic a family.'

The Anne Boleyn character went connected to explicate what co-parenting pinch Joshua is for illustration and really she's adapted to life arsenic a azygous mother.

'I conscionable person to do everything that I tin to group Juno up to triumph and to peacefully co-parent pinch personification whom I erstwhile loved very, very much,' she told nan outlet.

'Peace is what's needed correct now. Grace is what's needed correct now. Love, empathy, compassion. I'm trying to beryllium each those things and person religion that erstwhile I'm each those things, I will spot that reflected backmost toward me,' she finished.

Prior to Joshua, Lupita divided from her ex-boyfriend Selema Masekela past twelvemonth - and credited her feline Yoyo for treatment her heart. 

10 months aft she announced her romance pinch Selema, Lupita revealed that their narration had travel to a abrupt extremity and she posted a susceptible announcement.

The heartbreaking prose elaborate her immense symptom and determination to 'run into nan shadows' successful nan aftermath of nan break-up, which came conscionable hours earlier she was spotted putting connected a cosy show pinch newly-single Joshua.

Her connection read: 'There are overmuch much important things going connected successful nan world correct now, and my thoughts are pinch those who are profoundly suffering.

'At this moment, it is basal for maine to stock a individual truth and publically dissociate myself from personification I tin nary longer trust…

'I find myself successful a play of heartbreak because of a emotion abruptly and devastatingly extinguished by deception.'

Maika Monroe

American character Maika Monroe was established arsenic a shriek queen backmost successful 2014, starring successful It Follows and thriller The Guest successful nan aforesaid year, and moving successful nan scary genre ever since. 

But it's only successful nan past twelvemonth that Monroe has go 1 of horror's astir talked astir Queens, pursuing her capacity successful Longlegs. 

Longlegs follows 'an FBI agent, successful pursuit of a serial killer, uncovers a bid of occult clues that she must lick to extremity his terrifying sidesplitting spree,' per IMDB.

The thriller stars Hollywood vet Nicolas Cage, Alicia Witt and Blair Underwood.

The chilling blockbuster stars nan aforementioned Maika arsenic an FBI supplier successful pursuit of a serial killer.

Set successful nan 1990s, during her investigation, she uncovers a 'series of occult clues that she must lick to extremity his terrifying sidesplitting spree.' It already has been hailed arsenic 'sinister' and 'unsettling' by early viewers.

The haunting trailer for Longlegs features a bid of clips from nan movie - showcasing its grisly crime scenes, shocking acts of unit and otherworldly screams.

As her scary profession has blossomed, truthful Maika's individual life has been met pinch increasing talk, having dated 2 very precocious floor plan men successful caller years.  

The character dated Stranger Things character Joe Keery from 2017 to 2023. 

She is now making love existent property developer Dalton Gomez, nary different than Ariana Grande's ex-husband. 

Gomez and nan blonde beauty's narration was made charismatic successful October of 2023 during a day nighttime successful Los Angeles, conscionable 3 months aft his divided from Ariana Grande was made public.

After conscionable a twelvemonth of dating, Dalton and Ariane exchanged rings successful December of 2020 and tied nan knot successful May of 2021 - nevertheless they divided successful March 2023. 

A root adjacent to nan ex-couple told People that their narration came crashing erstwhile Grande moved to London to enactment successful nan two-part movie adjustment of Wicked.

The divided was kept retired of nan nationalist oculus until nan 7 Rings vocalist began romancing her Wicked co-star Ethan Slater.

Florence Pugh

Florence Pugh has galore genres nether her belt, from her domiciled successful Marvel's Black Widow to Greta Gerwig's adjustment of classical Little Women. 

Pugh, 28, starred successful scary suspense movie Malevolent successful 2018, and as Dani Ardor successful Midsommar (2019). 

She stars alongside Jack Reynor arsenic an American mates who are drawn into a convulsive cult successful Sweden, which spirals retired of power arsenic nan movie progresses, blurring nan spread betwixt what is and isn't real. 

Jack's characteristic Christian had intended to break up pinch Dani, who is still reeling from nan decease of her family, and their narration is already unsteady arsenic nan movie begins. 

Florence's personal life was astatine its astir hair-raising during her stint playing Alice successful Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling (2022) pinch Harry Styles. 

From the outset location was drama, owed to rumours of salary disputes and claims that Harry and Florence shared an off-screen buss during filming. 

Sources declare Pugh and Wilde's later fall-out stemmed from nan first chemistry shared by Pugh and her surface hubby earlier he became romantically progressive pinch Wilde. 

An insider told The Sun at nan time: 'Harry and Florence had chemistry from nan off, which translated incredibly good on-screen. One nighttime they had a spot of a snog, each very light-hearted and a spot of fun, and that was that.

'It was being gossiped astir by a mates of members of production, different nary 1 would person known. Harry was very overmuch azygous astatine nan clip and Florence had separated from Zach Braff, though she'd kept nan divided quiet to — ironically — debar headlines.

'There was nary cheating aliases misbehaviour from anyone. However, later on, Harry and Olivia started spending much clip together — sneaking disconnected for coffees, hanging retired successful 1 another's trailers, and sharing small, regular intimacies.'

MailOnline contacted representatives for Styles, Pugh and Wilde for remark astatine nan time. 

Things were made worse by a leaked video connection from Wilde to Shia LeBeouf, who was initially intended to play Harry Styles's characteristic earlier reportedly being fired by Wilde. 

In nan video, Wilde was heard saying: 'I americium heartbroken and I want to fig this out. You know, I deliberation this mightiness beryllium a spot of a wake-up telephone for Miss Flo, and I want to cognize if you're unfastened to giving this a changeable pinch me, pinch us.

'If she really commits, if she really puts her mind and bosom into it astatine this constituent and if you guys tin make bid - and I respect your constituent of view, I respect hers - but if you guys tin do it, what do you think? Is location hope? Will you fto maine know?'

'Miss Flo' past skipped nan property astatine Venice Film Festival successful September 2022 and grounded to admit head Wilde connected nan reddish carpet.  

Florence dated actor and filmmaker Zach Braff betwixt 2019 and 2022. 

During their relationship, nan mates — and peculiarly Florence — knowledgeable a torrent of maltreatment connected societal media owed to their 21-year property gap, though nan Little Drummer Girl character defended her correct to take to beryllium pinch Zach. 

She reportedly dated photographer Charlie Gooch for a year, but divided past October amid reports her 'busy schedule' was getting successful nan way.   

Elisabeth Moss

Moss, 41, is champion known for her roles successful AMC's Mad Men and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. 

In Handmaid's, she plays protagonist June (Offred) successful nan patriarchal dystopia group successful Gilead, based connected Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel. 

Though Handmaid's intelligibly has scary elements to it, she much evidently plays Scream Queens in The Invisible Man and Jordan Peele's Us. 

In Us, which is besides filled pinch zombies, burnings and throat-slittings, Moss attacks her ain look pinch a brace of scissors.

The Times called her a 'horror movie Queen' pursuing nan merchandise of nan film, confirmed by Moss herself successful an question and reply pinch nan paper. 

Speaking of nan infamous scissors scene, Moss said: 'That was nan logic I signed up for nan movie. To do that scene. 

'It was 1 of my favourite scenes erstwhile I publication nan script, and 1 of my favourite scenes to do. It's crazy, super-weird and scary. And specified fun.'

The actress, who was concisely joined to Fred Armisen from 2009 to 2011, is now pregnant pinch her first child, though she hasn't revealed who nan begetter is.  

US Weekly reported successful 2011 that Moss divided up pinch her hubby of 2 years complete her belief Scientology beliefs.

A root told nan mag astatine nan time, 'They had issues... Her belief was arsenic important to her arsenic their marriage, if not more. He could not get pinch it.'

However successful a 2014 question and reply pinch New York Magazine, Moss said that her matrimony to Armisen was 'extremely traumatic and atrocious and horrible.'

She added that nan thought that nan ending of her matrimony had thing to do pinch Scientology was '100 percent made up.'

In 2012, Moss moved connected pinch Australian cinematographer Adam Arkapaw aft gathering connected nan New Zealand group of nan mini-series Top of nan Lake.

The narration was confirmed by DailyMail.com astatine nan clip but they split in 2015.

She has attracted overmuch contention complete nan years for being a Scientologist, particularly arsenic immoderate spot it arsenic clashing pinch nan connection from Handmaid's. 

But she has consistently defended her beliefs, moreover saying it has helped her to go a 'skilled communicator', crediting it pinch helping her career. 

'It's not really a closed-off religion. It's a spot that is very unfastened to, like, welcoming successful personification who wants to study much astir it,' she told nan New Yorker previously. 

'I deliberation that's nan point that is astir apt nan astir misunderstood.'

The character revealed her godfather was long-time Scientologist Chick Corea and really her father, Ron, played successful a jazz set pinch Scientologist leader David Miscavige's father, Ronald.

The 'Mad Men' prima credited Scientology pinch school her nan connection skills that she uses successful her acting career.

Moss said that connection was 'Probably 1 of nan No. 1 basal things that I grew up learning and grew up utilizing and usage each day.'

During an quality connected Andy Cohen's 'Watch What Happens Live' successful March 2020, Moss was asked astir tabloid rumors that she was primed to participate into an arranged matrimony pinch Scientology champion Tom Cruise.

Moss joked, 'I really was confused and besides chiefly sewage texts from group being like, 'I didn't know, why didn't you show me? And conscionable disorder from my friends, but chiefly poking nosy astatine it 'cause evidently they knew it wasn't true.''

Sydney Sweeney 

Sydney Sweeney is champion known for her roles successful Euphoria, The White Lotus, and caller romanticist drama Anybody But You. 

Arguably, signs of scary are coming successful each, arsenic Euphoria features respective almost unwatchable scenes, while sinister dealings are ever-present successful The White Lotus (though it's difficult pressed to find immoderate scary successful Anyone But You).  

This twelvemonth nan 26-year-old produced and starred successful Immaculate, trying a Scream Queen domiciled for nan first time. 

Sweeney is simply a young nun named Sister Cecilia who miraculously falls pregnant aft moving to Italy. 

US Weekly said nan domiciled 'proves she was calved to beryllium a Scream Queen', and it will travel arsenic nary astonishment to spot her return connected further roles successful nan future. 

In 2023 Sweeney became engaged to businessman Jonathan Davino, but they effort to support their narration retired of nan nationalist eye. 

The brace person besides worked together successful nan intermezo industry. While Sydney starred successful Anyone But You, she besides co-produced nan movie pinch Davino done her accumulation institution Fifty-Fifty Films. 

But while filming, Sydney and her co-star Glen Powell were hounded by scandalous speculation that they were having an affair, while some being successful relationships pinch different people. 

They fuelled speculation by flirting pinch each different and moreover joking that they 'love' each other. 

Around nan aforesaid clip arsenic nan 2 filmed nan movie, Powell divided from woman Gigi Paris, further adding to nan speculation of a romance betwixt him and Sydney. 

But they person since confessed that they purposely allowed nan rumours to flourish to thief nan movie execute good astatine nan container office. 

Powell pointed retired that nan gambit 'worked wonderfully,' arsenic nan movie was a smash hit, and he added to nan New York Times: 'Sydney is very smart.'